Title, imprint, and name of editor from colophon ([22]₉ verso): Quintiliam eloquentiae fontem ab eruditissimo omnibono Leoniceno Emendatum. M. Nicolaus Ienson Gallicus viventibus posterisque miro impressit artificio. Annis .M. CCCCLXXI. mense Maii die .XXI. Deo gratias.

Place of printing from ISTC

Signatures: [1² 2-22¹⁰] ([22]₁₀=blank; all leaves unsigned).

Median folio; [2]₃ (i.e. fol. 5) recto: 39 lines, 224 x 137 mm; type: 115R, initial spaces without guide letters, spaces left for Greek.

The dedicatory letter by Leonicenus ([2]₁ verso) credits Jenson as the inventor of printing.

Goff, Frederick R. Incunabula in American libraries

Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum

Incunabula short title catalogue

COPY NOTE: Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy Q.402.50 FOLIO with single blank leaves inserted after [1]₂ and [2]₁. 14 illuminated initials and an illuminated coat of arms attributed to the Master of the Pico Pliny, cf. Lilian Armstrong, Studies of Renaissance Miniaturists in Venice (London: Pindar, 2003), vol. 1, p. 317, no. 11. Armstrong identifies the arms on [2]₂ as those of the Frizier family of Venice. Early/contemporary corrections throughout. Paper heavily sized. Leaf dimensions: 34 x 24 cm.

PROVENANCE: Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy Q.402.50 FOLIO with bookplate of Arthur Gale and bookseller's label of Breslauer & Meyer. Purchased from John F. Fleming in Feb., 1959.

BINDING: Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy Q.402.50 FOLIO bound in early brown blind-tooled leather. Spine rebacked in modern brown goatskin with title stamped in gilt. Three of four early brass catches (fore-edge, head, and tail). All edges gilt and gauffered.

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